The most delicious autumn vegetable - pumpkin, jam with lemon and orange

Can you please tell me a recipe in which there is pumpkin, jam with lemon and orange, it seems, if I'm not mistaken. Recently we were visiting friends, where they served us pumpkin jam for tea, very tasty. It seemed to me that there were citrus fruits in it, but I forgot to ask. How to do it?

So autumn has come to us, and with it - the time for winter preparations, especially sweet desserts. Apple, cherry or apricot jam is already a classic, but have you ever made it from a vegetable like pumpkin - lemon and orange jam? Agree that now real autumn colors flashed before the eyes of the majority. Orange-lemon-yellow, with an amber sheen ... This pumpkin jam is not only beautiful, but also very tasty. Sweet, but at the same time with an original citrus flavor, and even aromatic. Let's cook?

For jam, regardless of the recipe, always use ripe, sweet and rich pumpkin. Then it will be delicious and beautiful in color. And thanks to the acid contained in lemon and orange, the jam is stored well and for a long time. So you can safely prepare it for the winter.

Pumpkin - jam with lemon and orange slices in syrup

If you love desserts with whole bites in a stretching sweet syrup, then this recipe is for you. The jam turns out to be beautiful: golden pumpkin slices are mixed with citrus slices in caramel syrup. It is good to serve with pancakes or pancakes. And there is something to crunch, and there is much to get the pancake wet ...

Cooking will take about three hours on the strength, this is together with the peeling-slicing of pumpkin and fruits, so let's proceed:

1. Peel the pumpkin and inner fibers with seeds. We need no more than 1 kg, so if your fruit is large, cut it off. By the way, sunflower seeds do not throw them away - they can be dried and fried in a pan. It will be very tasty and healthy (raw ones are even healthier, although not so tasty). Cut the pumpkin into small wedges, the shape is not important, but they should not be very thick.
2. Pour boiling water over one large lemon, cut it into rings or half rings. Choose seeds.
3. Do the same with 0.5 oranges.
4. Pour 1 tbsp into a saucepan. water, add 1 kg of sugar and let it completely dissolve over low heat.
5. Now place the citrus pumpkin in the syrup and simmer for 1 hour, stirring occasionally.

The cooled jam is ready to eat. If you want to make it in reserve - in a hot form immediately from the pan, put it in jars and seal it tightly.

Thick pumpkin jam with lemon and orange in its own juice

This dessert will take longer to prepare, but it will be worth it. The jam will be almost uniform, especially if the ingredients are finely chopped.

You will need:

• 2 pieces of lemon and orange;
• 1200 g sugar;
• 2 kg pumpkin.

As always, peel and cut the pumpkin, but in this case it is better to cut into small cubes. Dice the citrus fruits too, along with the zest, taking out only the seeds. Now cover everything with sugar and leave it overnight to make the juice stand out. In the morning, put on the stove and boil until the desired density. Everything, thick jam or even jam is ready, you can roll it up or just close it with a nylon lid. In the latter case, store the jars in the refrigerator.

Jam from pumpkin, orange, lemon and ginger